Planet Bandy - Saturn this morn 23-Dec-05

[Robert_T]

Hi All, left the C9.25 out overnight for some Saturning this morning. Seeing was good (not great, say 7 out of 10). Tranparency must have been particularly good though for while the planet outline was oscillating a bit with the seeing the detail in bands and rings was better than I'd seen on the lappy screen before. :) . The cassini division was clear but not a lot of other ring detail. The banding on the globe was particularly obvious.

This came up a treat in Registax even before wavelets applied and only required very little processing. I tried a soft-sharpen in Photopaint for the shot at left and a little LR deconvolution in Astra Image for the shot at right - both are otherwise the exact same file and stack. Used 2.5x powermate and No resampling.

Had to get this one in early as Christmas party starts in an hour or so:drink: :drink: :drink: - if I did it later might get all technicoloor and wierd ;)

Enjoy!

[matt]

Robbo!!!

What version of RegiStax you using?

They are champion pix for very little processing. Am itching to get the 9.25 out under big inky black skies.

Have had it home a week this weekend and it's been calling me from the spare room every night.

"Take me out, Matthew ... take me out tonight ... let me take you on a journey through the universe.... away from all these street lights and nasty neighbours wih their blinding porch lights"....

I fear I must give in:lol: :lol:

[iceman]

Really really great Saturn! Great banding! The first one is a little too green, and the second one is a little too pinky/red for my liking, but could be easily fixed via the colour balance sliders.

See attached - hope you don't mind. Your originals are on the left, and my colour-preferenced versions are on the right. I used the colour balance to decrease the green/red, some increase in saturation, a boost in contrast and then a bit more colour adjustment.

Excellent work Robert.

[iceman]

Oh when you're using AstraImage, when you recombine the separate RGB images, use the "Relative Intensity" box to change the colour weights.

For example, on the 2nd image you could've set the red weight to "1.1" or "1.2", and then click "Update" to see the preview. You can see it will have less red. You can then do more adjustments using the colour balance sliders after.

[ving]

very sweet :)
one day soon I'll join the ranks of imagers :)

[Dennis]

Those are great Saturn images Robert - I was out at the same time, and found myself torn between the Moon and Saturn. The Moon won!

Cheers

Dennis

[Dennis]

Mike - I like your processing very much.

Cheers

Dennis

[Robert_T]

Matty! it's Registax 3 (and I'm in the middle of a Christmas party so sorry if not too coherent).

I was wondering how the C9.25 was going. Take it out treat her nice and she'll reward you!!;)

cheers,

[Robert_T]

Thanks Mike, no probs at all - I like you colour, big improvement. I had altered the colour weighting in the Astra Image recombine, but too far in the red.

cheers,

[beren]

:) Yep very nice well done

[Robert_T]

inspired by Mike's reprocess I had a go at getting better colour myself on the originals... better?

[rumples riot]

Well done Robert, glad to someone is getting nice seeing. The weather has been crap here yet again. Really Envious of you guys getting great images. Congrats.

[Robert_T]

Hi Rumples - After a pretty damn awful couple of months weather-wise, the last week or so has been like a dream, cloudless skies, good transparency and mostly good to great seeing - it's been fantastic and from what I can see is largely cos the jetstream is passing south of us here and stirring up your skies down in the south.

It's certainly becoming clear to me too that seeing is 9/10th of this game - all we can do is wait our opportunities and have the 1/10th sorted out when the conditions come good.

Hopefully conditions will shift and you'll get your chance for great seeing down there soon (so I can get some sleep) - BTW I'm very happy with the C9.25 so hope it shows its stuff for you also.

cheers,